Les Tour les Dix les Statuts

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Top 10 Paris Statues

Le-Versailles
King Louis XIV (Versailles)
Statue équestre d’Louis XIV
(only recently placed in this dominant spot)

King Henri IV
Statue équestre d’Henri IV (Pont Neuf)
(Melted Down during Revolution, Restored)

Winged Victory (Nike) of Samarath
Daru Staircase (Louvre)
(Escavated from a buried pile of rubble)

President Thomas Jefferson
(Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor) footbridge over Seine

Statute of Liberty (Scaled Replica) Île aux Cygnes
Statue de la Liberté Paris

Slate Rhino
Rhinoceros (Musee D’Orsay)

The Kiss (Marble) Rodin
(Outside of L’Orangerie, Original at Musée Rodin

Cardinal Richelieu tomb statue (Sorbonne)
A representation of recumbants and tomb statuary
(Pantheon, Cathedral St. Dennis, Louvre)

Napoleon (Place Vendôme) Napoleon in Classic Greek attire
(torn down by decree of Paris Commune, 1871, subsequently re-erected)

Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss (Louvre)

Venus de Milo (Louvre)

Le Penseur (The Thinker, The Poet)
Musée Rodin (Bronze Cast)

Child Playing with Goose (Louvre)

The Oddest Art at the Louvre in Paris, France

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The Six Continents (Musee D’Orsay)
l’Asie (and elephant)
l’Europe
l’Afrique (and cornicopia)
l’Amérique du Nord
l’Amérique du Sud
l’Océanie(and kangaroo)

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Four Captives also known as Four Defeated Nations (Le Louvre)
Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, Brandenburg, and Holland

Marley Horses (Louvre)

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